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Disease and death in eighteenth-century literature and culture: fashioning the unfashionable
eBook. English.
Published
London: Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as...
John Keats and the medical imagination
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Presenting ten chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, this text begins with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary...
Gender, pregnancy and power in eighteenth-century literature: the maternal imagination
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This work reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery...
The progress of romance: the politics of popular fiction
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2016
First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous...
British romanticism, climate change, and the anthropocene: writing tambora
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. This book is the first major ecocritical...
Inventing the gothic corpse: the thrill of human remains in the eighteenth-century novel
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from...
Writing illness and identity in seventeenth-century Britain
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. Observing that medical explanations for...
Cannibalism in literature and film
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
A comprehensive study of cannibalism in literature and film, spanning colonial fiction, Gothic texts and contemporary American horror. Amidst the sharp...
Gothic romanticism: architecture, politics, and literary form
eBook. English.
Published
New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This series of close readings relates architecture, politics, and literary form to shed new light on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey,...
Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature: touching fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with...
